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When I Was a Photographer
Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer—and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist—Félix Nadar published this memoir of his photographic life in 1900 at the age of eighty. Composed as a series of vignettes (we might view them as a series of “written photographs”), this intelligent and witty book offers stories of Nadar's experiences in the early years of photography, …
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- 9780262330718
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- 770 NAD w
The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the …
At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned rhyme and meter; music ceased to be tonally centered; and painting no longer aimed at faithful representation. These artistic developments have been attributed to cultural factors ranging from the Industrial Revolution and the technical innovation of photography to Freudian psycho…
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- 9780262356947
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- 745 KEY t
Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida: Essays in Honor of Annette Michelson
Annette Michelson's contribution to art and film criticism over the last three decades is unparalleled. This volume honors Michelson's unique legacy with original essays by some of the many scolars that have been influenced by her work. Some continue her efforts to develop theoretical frameworks for understanding modernist art, while others practice her form of interdisciplinary crtiticism in r…
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- 9789053564943
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- 296
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- Film Culture in Transition
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- 791 CAM c
Asian Literary Voices: From Marginal to Mainstream
Brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on Asian literature and culture, emphasising East Asia yet extending to South Asia Combines original findings of interest to specialists with a clear style of writing and argumentation that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader Brings to life a wide range of Asian literary and scholarly figures important in t…
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- 9789089640925
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- 176
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- ICAS Publications Series
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- 700 ASI a
William Rimmer: Champion of Imagination in American Art
William Rimmer (1816–1879) is arguably the first modernist American sculptor, although his inventive originality has not been fully acknowledged. Rimmer cultivated an art of ideas and personal expression whilst supporting himself as a physician and, later, as a teacher of art anatomy at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women in New York. Unlike his contemporaries, he advocated the creati…
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- 9781800647565, 9781800647572
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Urban Studies: Border and Mobility, Proceedings of the 4th International Conf…
This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural studies based on the international conference organized by the Faculty of Humanities at the Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. This publication contains studies on issues that become phenomena in urban life, includ…
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- 9780429507410, 9781138580343
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The Figure of Knowledge : Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s
Critical historiography of architectural theory It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmati…
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- 9789461663221
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Private Communities and Urban Governance; Theoretical and Comparative Perspec…
Pendekatan interdisipliner, komparatif, dan multi-segi untuk mempelajari komunitas swasta dan tata kelola kota, Menawarkan kontribusi besar untuk wacana ilmiah dan desain kebijakan, Mencakup cakupan luas topik yang biasanya tidak dicakup oleh literatur perumahan seperti agama, budaya, dan keamanan -->Buku ini menawarkan studi interdisipliner dan komparatif tentang interaksi kompleks antara bent…
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- 978-3-319-33210-9
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Theatrical Worlds : Beta Version
From the University of Florida College of Fine Arts, Charlie Mitchell and distinguished colleagues form across America present an introductory text for theatre and theoretical production. This book seeks to give insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well.
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- 9781616101664
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High-Resolution Spin-Resolved Photoemission Spectrometer and the Rashba Effec…
In this thesis, the author has developed a high-resolution spin-resolved photoemission spectrometer that achieves the world-best energy resolution of 8 meV. The author has designed a new, highly efficient mini Mott detector that has a large electron acceptance angle and an atomically flat gold target to enhance the efficiency of detecting scattered electrons. The author measured the electron…
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- 978-4-431-55027-3
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- XII, 83
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